Leave now if you’re not into mindless insanity. MAD videos, or MAD movies as they are also sometimes called, are a genre of Japanese online video/meme that uses crazy epilepsy inducing editing techniques, anime and video game music, visuals from anime and video games and random strange video clips and images taken from all over. These videos tend to be …

Seems like a great excuse to visit Osaka in 2018. In 2015 Universal Studios Japan (USJ) started their wildly successful Universal Cool Japan initiative as a way to promote some of Japan’s biggest entertainment properties and help drum up business for the Osaka based theme park. This ongoing program has resulted in a number of interesting attractions based on some …

Harry Potter, Final Fantasy and Sailor Mooon all in the same place. As part of an ongoing effort to promote Japanese video game and anime properties around the world, Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan (USJ) will soon be opening up attractions based on the massively popular anime series Sailor Moon and the classic video game franchise Final Fantasy. USJ began doing …

This guy gives Nyango Star a run for his money The masked Japanese YouTuber/drummer dainashi has released an epic and absolutely amazing video in which he shows off his impressive drumming skills by covering the entire soundtrack of that classic fighting game Street Fighter II. Although he may look like some sort of bizarre scrawny lucha libre wrestler, dainashi is …

Children, avert your eyes! A video of a bizarre, yet hilarious mishap involving a deflating dancing Pikachu getting whisked off stage in the middle of a performance at a Pokémon festival held in Korea has gone viral. Serving as both a celebration of the popular Pokémon franchise and a grand opening event for a new outdoor mall called Triple Street …

This guy really loves Splatoon. Thanks to the theme song to the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch game Splatoon 2 having been revealed well in advance of the game’s July 21 release, this catchy rock song has already managed to become quite a hit with many Splatoon fans, including the popular Japanese YouTuber Daichi, who earlier this year used his beatboxing …